childhoods
- 1Plural of childhood.
The novel contrasts the childhoods of two brothers raised apart.
Many of the patients described difficult childhoods during their sessions.
Note
A plural that only some meanings of childhood can take. The state of being a child cannot be counted, so it has no plural. What multiplies is the span of years, one for each person, which is why childhoods are compared, contrasted and called happy or difficult. The broader sense, the early stage of something's development, is countable too, so a writer can speak of the childhoods of several things.
childhoods is a form of childhood
childhood, noun: The period of a person's life from infancy until puberty, during which one is a child. Full entry
- Forms
- childhoodchildhoods plural
- Spelling
- childhood → childhoods: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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